Ray Huang

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Ray Huang (Simplified Chinese: 黄仁宇; June 25, 1918January 8, 2000) was a Chinese historian. He was an officer in the Nationalist army and fought in the Burma campaigns; earned a history Ph. D in the University of Michigan, worked with Joseph Needham and is a contributor of his Science and Civilisation in China, taught in the U.S., and is mainly famous in his last years for the macro history idea.

[edit] Books

  • 1587, A Year of No Significance(first published in English, with Chinese and other language translations)
  • China: A Macro History
  • Fiscal Administration during the Ming Dynasty
  • Conversation on Chinese History by the Hudson River (in Chinese)
  • Broadening the Horizons of Chinese History: Discourses, Syntheses, and Comparisons
  • Capitalism and the 21st Century(in Chinese)
  • The Grand Canal during the Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644 (Doctoral dissertation)
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